📖 Definitions of "Duress"
noun
- 1
Harsh treatment.
- 2
Constraint by threat.
- 3
Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
verb
- 1
To put under duress; to pressure.
"Someone was duressing her."
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